Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) contain person- and
household-level information from the "long-form" questionnaires
distributed to a sample of the population enumerated in the 1980
Census. This data collection, containing 5-percent data, identifies
every state, county groups, and most individual counties with 100,000
or more inhabitants (350 in all). In many cases, individual cities or
groups of places with 100,000 or more inhabitants are also identified.
Household-level variables include housing tenure, year structure was
built, number and types of rooms in dwelling, plumbing facilities,
heating equipment, taxes and mortgage costs, number of children, and
household and family income. The person record contains demographic
items such as sex, age, marital status, race, Spanish origin, income,
occupation, transportation to work, and education.

The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) contain person- and
household-level information from the "long-form" questionnaires
distributed to a sample of the population enumerated in the 1980
Census. This data collection, containing 5-percent data, identifies
every state, county groups, and most individual counties with 100,000
or more inhabitants (350 in all). In many cases, individual cities or
groups of places with 100,000 or more inhabitants are also identified.
Household-level variables include housing tenure, year structure was
built, number and types of rooms in dwelling, plumbing facilities,
heating equipment, taxes and mortgage costs, number of children, and
household and family income. The person record contains demographic
items such as sex, age, marital status, race, Spanish origin, income,
occupation, transportation to work, and education.

Study Description

Citation

United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. Census of Population and Housing, 1980 [United States]: Public Use Microdata Sample (A Sample): 5-Percent Sample. ICPSR08101-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997-08-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08101.v2

Universe:
All persons and housing units in the United States and
Puerto Rico.

Data Type(s):
census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

The household and person records in each
hierarchical data file have logical record lengths of 193 characters,
but the number of records varies with each file.

The record layout
for Part 72, Puerto Rico, is different from the state datasets. Refer
to the supplemental documentation for this part.

The codebook is
available in hardcopy form only, while the Puerto Rico supplemental
documentation is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF)
file.

Methodology

Sample:
For this data collection, the full 1980 Census sample that
received the "long-form" questionnaire (19.4 percent of all
households) was sampled again through a stratified systematic
selection procedure with probability proportional to a measure of
size. This 5-percent sample, i.e., 5 households for every 100
households in the nation, includes over one-fourth of the households
that received the long-form questionnaire.

Data Source:

self-enumerated forms

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-06-28

Version History:

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 81 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 80 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 81 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 80 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1997-08-25 Part 72, Puerto Rico data, has been added to
the collection, as well as supplemental documentation for
Puerto Rico in the form of a separate PDF file.